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DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 to noon). "Monsters of the Ocean Deep" takes a look at such aquatic creatures as the shark, the sting ray and the octopus, which do not always live up to their dangerous reputations...
...Ahmanson's lucrative combination of S. & L.s and insurance prompted Justice Department antitrusters to investigate his operations, but the inquiry was soon dropped. "They call Uncle Howard an octopus," said his nephew and business associate, Bill Ahmanson, a few years ago. "But the worst that can be said about Unc is that he lives to build capital and to run his own show...
...loosely knit organization of laymen and priests that Escrivá founded less than four decades ago in Madrid. Despite his counsel to "pass unnoticed," it has become the most controversial -and in many ways the most powerful -Spanish ecclesiastical invention since the Jesuits. Many Spaniards call it "Octopus Dei," and in Argentina it is widely believed to be a "holy mafia." Many Jesuits, in particular, consider it heretical in both concept and practice-a sort of Catholic freemasonry. Spain's Diplomat-Journalist Ismael Herráiz charges that Opus Dei already "controls the organisms that control Spanish economic policy...
...overseas spending by private companies and the interest-equalization tax that penalizes foreign borrowers in U.S. markets, Peterson warned, "chip away at what makes U.S. and world enterprises profitable and productive. The whole show," he said, "is reminiscent of a silent-motion-picture comedian trying to wrap an octopus in a blanket. Every time he gets one tentacle covered, another pops...
...high Amaryllis is a black steel construction that bends like the Japanese art of origami, or paper folding, and Robert Smithson, 28, whose Alogon, also of black steel, cantilevers from the wall like a sawtooth set of staggered boxes. Their works are as unsettling as a spastic octopus sculpted by Michelangelo might have been...